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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.

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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
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